Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The debate is therefore about whether ‘ gender equality ’ means equal opportunities to study what is to girls a rejecting curriculum , or whether it means changing the curriculum so that boys and girls are equally advantaged ( or disadvantaged ) . |
| 2 | ’ My leftie grandchildren think I 'm to the right of Genghis Khan , but I really believe that you have to show people you ca n't do this sort of thing and get away with it , ’ she says . |
| 3 | Forced to work at home , he developed techniques for preparing and collecting gases using what was to hand . |
| 4 | His increasingly independent protégée locked herself away in a London dance studio for three weeks perfecting what was to be one of the most talked about dance routines of the pop year . |
| 5 | Whereabouts have you been to on your travels , to take recordings , what sort of places have you been to ? |
| 6 | ‘ It is for the Justices to say what is to be done . |
| 7 | At some point , between the end of the prosecution in December and the beginning of the defence in February , Noriega 's lawyers abandoned what was to be a sensational defence : a claim that Noriega was a dupe of CIA-contract pilots running guns to Nicaraguan Contras and returning home via Panama with cocaine . |
| 8 | The men do what is to all intents a twenty-four-hour shift seven days a week . |
| 9 | Some companies take this responsibility out of the salesperson 's hands and produce daily worksheets showing who is to be called on and in what order . |
| 10 | When public opinion is central to the fortunes of a government , unscrupulous expedients to manipulate it are to be expected . |
| 11 | To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out . |